“Making art is an opportunity to synthesize your curiosity with your lived experience.”
— Jeff Whetstone
The Program in Visual Arts introduces students to the studio arts in the context of a liberal arts education. Offering courses in painting, drawing, graphic design, photography/digital photography, film/video, and sculpture, the program provides enrolled students extensive contact with an accomplished faculty as well as access to technical, analog, and digital labs including darkrooms, ceramics facilities, welding and mold-making areas, a letterpress studio, film editing bays, and a renovated theater for 35 mm and 16 mm film projections. The Visual Arts program occupies the entire historical building located at 185 Nassau Street.
Students who are interested in concentrating in Visual Arts can earn their bachelor’s degree in The Practice of Art (PA) with a focus on Visual Art through the Department of Art & Archaeology or through the Visual Arts Minor done in conjunction with another major. Members of either cohort can follow our dedicated film track. Both Practice of Art majors and Visual Arts minors enjoy 24/7 access to shared studio loft spaces as juniors and spacious, semi-private studios as seniors. Throughout the year, student work is exhibited in the Lucas Gallery, the Hurley Gallery, the newly renovated Hagan Gallery, and the James Stewart Film Theater.
Employing an interdisciplinary and multi-media approach, the Program in Visual Arts encourages general students to enrich their education with art-making experience (and the attendant questions and meta-perspectives that offers), and for concentrators to weave different art-making modalities and media into their overall practice.
Visual arts senior Wendi Yan '23 presents "A Tiny Museum of Mammoth Technologies," an exhibition of new works in the Hurley Gallery from May 8 - 14. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Visual arts senior Wendi Yan '23 presents "A Tiny Museum of Mammoth Technologies," an exhibition of new works in the Hurley Gallery from May 8 - 14. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Visual arts senior Rachel Qing Pang '23 presents " Coagulate." a sculptural exhibition in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau from May 8 – 14, 2023. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Visual arts senior Rachel Qing Pang '23 presents " Coagulate." a sculptural exhibition in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau from May 8 – 14, 2023. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Topaz Winters’s senior exhibition, Something Dead That Doesn’t Know It’s Dead, on view in the Lucas Gallery on April 24-May 5, 2023. Photo by Jon Sweeney
An electronic musical experience by Lola Bean Constantino '23 titled Telemeditations_01 provides the sound for Topaz Winters’s senior exhibition on view in the Lucas Gallery from April 24-May 5, 2023. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Titi Sodimu’s senior exhibition, Boxes and Building Blocks, on view in the Lucas Gallery on April 24-May 5, 2023. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Titi Sodimu’s senior exhibition, Boxes and Building Blocks, on view in the Lucas Gallery on April 24-May 5, 2023. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Visual arts senior Lane Marsh '23 presents "Petty Saint," an exhibition of new work in the Hurley Gallery at the Lewis Arts complex in April 2023. Photo by Jaclyn Sweet
Visual arts senior Lane Marsh '23 presents "Petty Saint," an exhibition of new work in the Hurley Gallery at the Lewis Arts complex in April 2023. Photo by Jaclyn Sweet
Visual arts senior Maggie Chamberlain '23 presents "Collage," an exhibition of new works on paper in the Hagan Gallery at 185 Nassau St. in April 2023. Photo by Jaclyn Sweet
Visual arts senior Maggie Chamberlain '23 presents "Collage," an exhibition of new works on paper in the Hagan Gallery at 185 Nassau St. in April 2023. Photo by Jaclyn Sweet
Eliana Gagnon's senior exhibition, eye sees eye on view in the Lucas Gallery, March 27-April 7. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Eliana Gagnon's senior exhibition, eye sees eye on view in the Lucas Gallery, March 27-April 7. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Tai Jeffers's senior exhibition, Suspension, on view in the Hurley Gallery, March 27-April 7. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Tai Jeffers's senior exhibition, Suspension, on view in the Hurley Gallery, March 27-April 7. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Nemo's senior art showcase, Living in the GAP on view in the Hagan Gallery, March 27-April 7, 2023. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Nemo's senior art showcase, Living in the GAP on view in the Hagan Gallery, March 27-April 7. Photo by Jon Sweeney
exceedingly small, and fine (and mostly trivial): A Senior Exhibition by Annabel Dupont on view in the Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complex from March 20-24. Photo by Jon Sweeney
exceedingly small, and fine (and mostly trivial): A Senior Exhibition by Annabel Dupont on view in the Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complex from March 20-24. Photo by Jon Sweeney
CY CLE: A Senior Exhibition by Ay Marsh on view in the Lucas Gallery from March 20-26. Photo by Jon Sweeney
CY CLE: A Senior Exhibition by Ay Marsh on view in the Lucas Gallery from March 20-26. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Nucleus but like of a Spiral, A Senior Exhibition by Ari Riggins on view in the Hagan Gallery from March 18 - 24. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Nucleus but like of a Spiral, A Senior Exhibition by Ari Riggins on view in the Hagan Gallery from March 18 - 24. Photo by Jon Sweeney
Frog in the Well: A Senior Exhibition by Yoko Urano on view in the Lucas Gallery from Feb. 27 - March 10. Photo by Lauren Fedorchak
Frog in the Well: A Senior Exhibition by Yoko Urano on view in the Lucas Gallery from Feb. 27 - March 10. Photo by Lauren Fedorchak
What am I supposed to do now? A Senior Exhibition by Eloise Schrier featuring new multimedia works that include painting and collage of found, collected and curated objects in the CoLab from Feb. 27 – March 10. Photo by Jon Sweeney
What am I supposed to do now? A Senior Exhibition by Eloise Schrier featuring new multimedia works that include painting and collage of found, collected and curated objects in the CoLab from Feb. 27 – March 10. Photo by Jon Sweeney